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This text liberated by The Shakaar Cell: “Resistance Is NOT Futile.” Other Shakaar Releases: - Star Trek: Dark Passions Volume 1 Star Trek: Dark Passions Volume 2 The Romulan Way By Diane Duane and Peter Morwood. NOTE The document following is a print-medium transcription of the subjective-conceptual history work The Romulan Way, copyright (c) Terise Haleakala-LoBrutto. The material originally appeared in substantially different form in The Journal of the Federation Institute for the Study of Xenosociology, Vol, LXII, Numbers fib-109. FOREWORD Among many issues we are still unsure of, one fact makes itself superevident: they were never Romulans.” But one hundred years after our first tragic encounters with them, that is what we still call them. The Rihannsu find this a choice irony. Among the people of the Two Worlds, words, and particularly names, have an importance we have trouble taking seriously. A Rihanha asked about this would say that we have been interacting, not with them and their own name as it really is, but with a twisted word/name, an aehallh or monster-ghost, far from any true image. And how can one hope to prosper in ones relationships if they are spent talking to false images in the belief that they are real? Eight years of life among the Rihannsu has dispelled some of the ghosts for me, but not all. Even thinking in their language is not enough to completely subsume the observer into that fierce, swift, incredibly alien mindset, born of a species bred to war, seemingly destined to peace, and then self-exiled to develop a bizarre synthesis of the two. It may be that only our children, exchanged with theirs in their old custom of rrh-thanai hostage-fostering, will come home to us knowing not only their foster families minds, but their hearts. And we will of course be shocked, after the fashion of parents everywhere, to find that our children are not wholly our own anymore. But if we can overcome that terror and truly listen to what those children say